Featured Poet - "You" by A'Myah Banks

This beautiful poem was submitted by A'Myah Banks. Congratulations on being our featured poet of the month!

You

When you said that I'm the one you wanted. The countless times

you said you loved me. The way your deep but fragile voice always managed

to put me to sleep. But those eyes, those eyes I can't seem to shake. I'll never

forget them. no matter how hard I try. You will always be part of me that I will never

let slip away. Heaven? Yeah, heaven was the way I felt when you held me close

to your chest. So close that all I could hear was the rhythmic beat of your heart.

I miss you. I want you back. I want your laugh, your sarcasm, your imperfection. 

I just want you. "Late at night when all the world is sleeping I stay up and think of

you, and I wish on a star that somewhere you are thinking of me too." Cause I need you.

I want so bad to be back in your arms. For you to hold me close like you used

too. For me to be yours, and you to be mine. Even as days grow old and my

memory starts to fade, never, never will I let you go. 

April Poetry Contest!

April is National Poetry Month and to celebrate, the Main Library is hosting a poetry contest! Details are in the image below, but in case you can't see it well, here are the basics:

It's open to anyone ages 13-18.

The poem can be any style and doesn't have to rhyme. 

The poems can't be longer than 20 lines. 

You can turn in a poem that is either typed out or written by hand, but make sure we can read your handwriting if it's hand-written. 

You can pick up an entry form at the Main Library Teen desk.

Once poem will be featured on this blog each week, and one poem will be chosen as "best poem" by an anonymous vote. 

If your poem is chosen as a featured poem you will win a small prize. 

If your poem is chosen as the best poem you will win a slightly bigger prize. 

Get your entries in early! No poems will be accepted after the 26th. Voting opens in the teen room on the 29th of April and ends on May 4th, after Library Con. 

Inside the Pages - A Poem

Inside the Pages

By: Jasmine Perez

     I have scanned nearly every possible

shelf in each bookstore and library

and have never experienced a book

that has warned me about the tragic dark stages

of life;

a book that also reminds

me of all the light in myself.

  But I don’t blame the authors

for the misleading lies about life.

I blame life for being so

unpredictable

that one cannot shove the meanings

of life

into words stuffed into a book

and placed onto dusty bookshelves.

  A book written about life

and it’s aspects would never perish;

the pages would never dissolve into the floorboards

of an empty forgotten attic,

waiting to be remembered.

 Life, as a really good book

never fades.